USDA Adjusts Survey for Crop Inventory

Change Calls for Two Storage Reports

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will change how it surveys farmers about their grain stockpiles, following complaints that last year's estimates for corn supplies were misleading.

The agency will start to ask farmers and operators of grain elevators in all states to file two storage numbers, one for crops in storage from past harvests and one for crops currently coming out of the fields. The USDA traditionally reports just crops being stored from past harvests, but a sharp jump in corn supplies in September drew...